Talk:Barry Bloom

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Barry R Bloom - Update summary – September 2025

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I’ve made a number of updates to the Barry R. Bloom article to address the maintenance tags and to improve readability and sourcing. The main changes are:

Article structure: reorganized sections into Academic career, Research contributions, Policy and advisory roles, Selected publications, and Awards and honors for better flow.
Research coverage: expanded details on Bloom’s malaria work with WHO, his tuberculosis studies (vitamin D–dependent antimicrobial pathway and aerosol vaccine delivery), and his role in COVID-19 policy and communications (Massachusetts vaccine advisory group, Harvard press briefings).
Links and references: replaced dead links with archived versions, standardized citation formatting, and updated key references (Harvard Gazette, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health).
Publications: added several landmark papers (Science 1966; Annual Review of Immunology 1984; Science 2006) plus a full citation for The Vaccine Book (2nd ed., Academic Press/Elsevier, 2016), co-edited with Paul-Henri Lambert.
Infobox: cleaned up “known for,” awards, and workplaces. A photo, birth date, and birthplace can be added once reliable, freely licensed sources are available.

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The “update” tag (May 2021) has been addressed through new content on malaria, COVID-19, and by fixing broken links.
The “BLP sources” tag (August 2024) remains for now, since additional inline citations would help strengthen sections on awards and advisory roles.

AAAdlerCH (talk) 18:42, 22 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

This page was redesigned at the edge.

Barry R Bloom - Update summary – September 2025